On 04/14/2020 09:20 AM, Wols Lists wrote: > Again, personally, I'd make /tmp a tmpfs rather than a partition of its > own, the spec says that the system should *expect* /tmp to disappear at > any time and especially on reboot... while tmpfs defaults to half ram, > you can specify what size you want, and it'll make use of your swap space. Agreed, but keep in mind that what is written to /tmp on tmpfs will be stored in RAM (reducing your available RAM by that amount). This only becomes an issue if you are running something that makes heavy use of /tmp (some databases can use huge amounts of temporary storage for queries, joins, etc...) Or if you are a budding programmer that routinely (or may accidentally) write very large files to /tmp. If you fall into this category, you may want to specify that large temporary files are created elsewhere. I put /tmp on tmpfs for all normal installations and haven't had an issue. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
